Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ittc!fpb From: fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Software installation opinions needed Message-ID: Date: 28 Sep 90 02:11:59 GMT References: <25908@shamash.cdc.com> <1990Sep19.144819.12179@dg-rtp.dg.com> <24542@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <0706TQG@xds13.ferranti.com> Sender: news@ittc.wec.com Organization: Westinghouse, ITTC, Pgh, PA. Lines: 18 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 26 Sep 90 15:15:10 GMT In article <0706TQG@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >And to top it off, this on a system that already has one of the best >automatic software installation systems I've ever seen. Well it isn't necessarily one of the best I have ever seen. However SUN uses something called extract_unbundled (usually run as root). To load their add-on packages. It does a fairly nice job. The question I would like to have answered is? Does SUN encourage/support use of this script by 3rd party vendors? If not, why not? If so why don't more people start using it. From what I can tell all it requires is write access into /usr/tmp a fairly innocuous place. Can anyone offer any details. -- | () () () | Frank P. Bresz | Westinghouse Electric Corporation | \ /\ / | fpb@ittc.wec.com | ITTC Simulators Department | \/ \/ | uunet!ittc!fpb | Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate. | ---------- | (412)733-6749 | My opinions are mine, WEC don't want 'em.